Silent Hill f, the first mainline entry in the decades-old horror franchise, will be fully unveiled during a livestream presentation on March 13 at 5PM CST called ‘Silent Hill Transmission’. The game’s director, Al Yang, took to X (formerly Twitter) to say “Excited to finally be able to share what we’ve been cooking”. Silent Hill f was first revealed in 2022 during a plethora of Silent Hill announcements, including the remake of Silent Hill 2 that recently received critical acclaim upon its release last year.

The artistic and haunting trailer didn’t give fans much explanation for the new title, other than a notable change in setting to 1960s Japan. Normally, the series, influenced by the late, great David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, takes place in a small American town. More details will likely be revealed about the move to the East during the said livestream.

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Silent Hill f‘s reveal trailer features unsettling scenery and a final gruesome shot of a woman, covered in plant-like growths, whose face peels off revealing the internal gore before cutting to the title. The story is being written by Ryukishi07, whose most famous work is the When They Cry visual novel series. The character and creature designs are by kera who worked on Spirit Hunter: NG.

Lastly, the game is produced by series producer Motoi Okamoto. Okamoto’s work dates back to the 2000s with Nintendo, but joined Konami in 2018 directing the critically mixed Silent Hill: The Short Message. He would later go on to work as a producer for the critically acclaimed Silent Hill 2 remake.

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Once upon a time, the Silent Hill franchise was widely considered the greatest and most artistically significant horror game series of all time. Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and to a lesser extent, Silent Hill 4: The Room pushed the boundaries of what games could be as an art form at a time when the general public still saw them as dispensable media. The late 90s and early 00s were a golden age for the franchise and Konami itself as a publisher.

These times didn’t last, however, as after several critically mixed and even panned entries during the late 00s and 2010s left the series in desperate need of a revival. Prayers from fans were seemingly answered when the mysterious P.T. demo was revealed to be a ‘playable teaser’ for a new entry helmed by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima with involvement from Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro and starring The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus. Silent Hills, as it was titled, looked to be a major step forward not just for the franchise but for the horror game genre as a whole.

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This was, sadly, not to be. Following a public falling out with Hideo Kojima, who would later go on to make the Death Stranding series, Konami seemingly shuttered all future development. Fans were elated to see the plethora of announcements from Konami about the franchise in 2022 and the smash success of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake looks to have emboldened the company to keep up the work. Thankfully, with the bizarre and unique vibes given by Silent Hill f‘s trailer, it seems like the company is just as interested in pushing the franchise forward as it is in honoring its past.

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